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Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2003
By Charles Bermant, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 5--Take the word "spam," add a "t" and move the letters around a bit. You get "stamp," which is the basis of one proposal to end the scourge.
Here's the idea: Commercial e-mailers would pay an authorization fee that would grant them the privilege to send mail to a recipient. As described in Information Week, the program, under development by IBM, would sniff incoming e-mail and determine first whether a message is part of a recipient-defined list of approved addresses. Messages not on the list then would be scoured for a 10-digit code obtained from one of two sources -- the above-mentioned software, or a site that would issue authenticated codes for a fee.
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